TY - CHAP
T1 - Locating and monitoring emergency responder using a wearable device
AU - Kunnath, Abishek Thekkeyil
AU - Pradeep, Preeja
AU - Ramesh, Maneesha Vinodini
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - When a disaster occurs, activities like search, rescue, recovery, and cleanup are carried out by emergency responders. This paper proposes a new framework for supporting the safety and health of emergency responders by locating their position and monitoring their vital signs using a Wireless Wearable Device. As an initial step towards the development of a wireless wearable tracking and monitoring system for emergency responders, this system uses an iterative localization based scheme, which provides the exact position of each emergency responder, and monitors their vital signs like skin temperature and pulse rate. Any change in the vital signs can be easily sensed and tracked, and could be used to provide warnings when critical events are detected. The system could be used to send early warning alerts and for communication between emergency responders.
AB - When a disaster occurs, activities like search, rescue, recovery, and cleanup are carried out by emergency responders. This paper proposes a new framework for supporting the safety and health of emergency responders by locating their position and monitoring their vital signs using a Wireless Wearable Device. As an initial step towards the development of a wireless wearable tracking and monitoring system for emergency responders, this system uses an iterative localization based scheme, which provides the exact position of each emergency responder, and monitors their vital signs like skin temperature and pulse rate. Any change in the vital signs can be easily sensed and tracked, and could be used to provide warnings when critical events are detected. The system could be used to send early warning alerts and for communication between emergency responders.
KW - incident commander
KW - localized node
KW - monitoring centre
KW - position estimation
KW - unlocalized node
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84866099955
U2 - 10.1145/2345396.2345582
DO - 10.1145/2345396.2345582
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84866099955
SN - 9781450311960
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1163
EP - 1168
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI'12
T2 - 2012 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2012
Y2 - 3 August 2012 through 5 August 2012
ER -